With the last weekly collection for landfill rubbish due to take place on Monday followed a week later by the first of the new weekly recycling collections has anyone received delivery of their collection of bins and waste food caddies

And patience has been rewarded along Springhead Road for the pretty multi-coloured plastic bins have duly been delivered.

It seems a pity to put rubbish in these shiny new receptacles but since we are obviously going to have to pay for them by way of the Poll Tax I guess it will be wise to use them for the purpose they are designed for.

Sorry. Whenever a subject allied to the iniquitous council tax enters my mind I always substitute what I consider the name of the best tax ever invented: i.e. a charge on every adult for the services every adult can access.

Ah, those halcyon days of paying the poll tax for too short a period before brute force overcame common sense.

Much confusion on the first day of the rescheduled landfill and recycling collections. There were many wheelie bins and black plastic bags on view. Someone has not been paying attention. Even a parish councillor didnít know that it was not landfill week. Admittedly he or she would not have got any guidance on this on the councilís website anyway.

Even the collectors are not up to speed on this as I followed the instructions regarding batteries and last night I found them strewn across the ground.

Anyone else got observations on this great day._________________It's later than you think

Following your comments regarding refuse crew not understanding what they are doing, a couple of weeks ago, we had an enormous amount of bottles for recycling (yes it was a good party!). These were left in a large black bin bag with other boxes of bottles together with the green recycling box away from our own purchased landfill bin. It was a day when both landfill and recycling were to be collected. When the landfill advanced party arrived to place all rubbish together, they simply picked up recycling bag of bottles and placed into our landfill bin. Why did I bother to rinse all these bottles out? Perhaps by placing the bottles in a black bin bag it automatically denoted it as landfill? The cardboard box with the other bottles in was left behind after being emptied as the cardboard box was obviously landfill.

How discusting is it walking around uplyme all the bins by the church, village hall and bus stops are full and over flowing with dog poo and beer bottles its discusting why is it not being collected when kids are walking around its smells yuck.

Also you pay money to hire a very nice village hall but have to take your rubbish home where exactly are you ment to put it when youve had a party or wedding and you get a bin collection every 2 weeks i think that the village hall should have more than 2 little bins and get a contractor in to empty the rubbish on a weekly basis like most pubs and public halls. You pay enough money to hire the hall surely this could be included in the price as its a matter of about £10 a week to get someone in with a big bin to be emptied.